We’ve shared our suggestions , but we know there are many other great hints and tips out there. Not unlike making the perfect cappuccino. Or turning a simple brake repair into a $2,000 transmission rebuild. You get the point. What are your tips for teaching a manual transmission novice how to d…

I will be doing that task with my daughter soon. All your points are good, and for the large flat place I plan on a limited access parking lot. The other part of my plan is using a 93 f250 truck with a first gear so low I see failure to grasp the concept smoothly improbable, passing test starting …

My father had the right idea. He took me to the garage at the phone company where he worked on a Sunday. Guess he figured if I was going to kill a clutch, it should be on a company vehicle! We picked the cleanest Fairmont wagon with a stick and spent the afternoon lurching around the parking lot.…

I like to focus on the concept of “motion point”. This is the point where as you lift up on the clutch petal the car just barely starts to move. I like to see the student get used to lifting the clutch petal feel the car start to move and then depress the clutch and either coast to a stop or apply…

Here’s my suggestion, Watch the way 90% of people do it, and don’t do what they do. Most people give the car way too much power when starting in first, if on a hill it’s one thing, but if the surface is level, you shouldn’t hear the engine racing at all, it should sound like an automatic starting …

Give it some gas and let the clutch out slowly. A-JERKA-JERKA-CHUG-DIED. OK. Put the clutch in and start her up. Now give it a little more gas and let the clutch out a little slower. After they get the hang of that, find a little incline and you drive and show them the rolling backward problem.…

:: Give it some gas and let the clutch out slowly :: Nope, wrong. It’s the other way around. Let the clutch out slowly and if the engine starts to really lug, give it enough gas to keep it running. After the car starts to move on its own, smoothly and quickly release the clutch and then “give it…

Not wrong. When doing it the first few times they need the cushion of extra gas (lug avoidance) until they get the clutch thing. When they get the clutch thing a funny thing happens - they ease off on the gas. If a very slow moving car is at the lug point, its either going to die anyway OR its g…

My favorite “learning to drive a stick” story was posted here a few years ago. Someone asked if he should teach his 16 year old daughter how to drive a stick, or should her boyfriend do it. The replies quickly turned to the benefits of manual-vs-automatics, and then someone replied with this: Tea…

Ninety percent of learning how to drive an 18-wheeler is learning how to back up. Ninety percent of learning how to fly an airplane is learning how to land. And, ninety percent of learning how to drive a manual is learning how to use the clutch.

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Perfect your automatic equipped driving first as you can more safely devote resources after some actions become “ingrained”.

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